100+ Facts about Meditation to aid your introspection
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“Meditation is not about clearing the mind; it’s about focusing on one thing. When the mind wanders, the meditation isn’t a failure. Our brain is like a wayward puppy, out of control. Catching it and putting it back to the object of focus is the mediation.”
by Brooks, director of the Austin Psychology and Assessment Center
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Start just by sitting on a chair, or on your couch. Or on your bed. If you’re comfortable on the ground, sit cross-legged. It’s just for two minutes at first anyway, so just sit. Later you can worry about optimizing it.
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You can do meditation in your office, in the park, during your commute.
Sitting meditation is the best place to start, but in truth, you’re practicing for this kind of mindfulness in your entire life.
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Studies on the relaxation response have documented the following short-term benefits to the nervous system:
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Maintain this meditation practice for two to three minutes to start, and then try it for longer periods.
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People meditate, not out of obligation or a hope that it will be helpful. They meditate because it creates very visible, very real positive changes in their lives.
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...include stress reduction, sharpened concentration, and improved circulation to start.
Once you begin to practice, you'll soon experience a quieter mind, a more open heart, and a sense of inner freedom.
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The practice of Zen meditation (Zazen), is the core of Zen Buddhism and it’s a way of vigilance and self-discovery which is practiced while sitting on a meditation cushion. It is the experience of living from moment to moment, in the here and now and also how Gautama got enlightened and became the Buddha.
Zazen is an attitude of spiritual awakening.
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It is a practice to control the power of thought and to cultivate more peace, clarity and happiness.
Meditation enables us to move from higher frequency brain waves to lower frequency waves, which activates different centers in the brain.
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It works through a combination of several distinct mechanisms:
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It involves yoga poses in order to extend your energy from the base of your spine all the way to your mind.
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The purpose of the practice is to focus on both your breath and posture together in order to gain full bodily control, allowing the energy flow to increase all throughout your body.
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The purpose is to become aware of your thoughts by simply observing them. It allows thinking about why you're thinking your thoughts.
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The practice revolves around learning how to rid yourself of any self-doubt. After you cultivate personal love, you will be able to wish love to all those around you.
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The goal is to be able to keep your concentration focused on one thing and not to allow your mind to wander.
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The intention of calming meditation is to cultivate a quieter, more peaceful state of mind and improved concentration.
Insight meditation often sets an intention to transform the mind by developing qualities such as wisdom and compassion.
Many meditation techniques combine elements of both.
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This form uses bowls, gongs, and other instruments. Creating sound vibrations helps to focus the mind.
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Loving-kindness and compassion meditation involves cultivating a love for people who are suffering. Loving-kindness meditation can change your neural circuitry even faster than mindfulness meditation.
Typically, in loving-kindness meditation, you repeat certain phrases in your head, such as "may I be safe," "may I be healthy". After you wish these things for yourself, you wish the same things for people you love, and then you circle out.
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Meditation is not for everyone. For some people, meditation can provoke intense mental distress of impaired physical functioning.
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More and more people are turning today to Buddhism, in order to find back the quietness that everyday life makes them lose.
Moreover, individuals claim that Buddhism enables them to deal with their suffering and find joy within.
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One of Buddhism's most popular teaching is the so-called 'impermanence. The term refers to the idea that everything has an end, no matter how difficult might seem to deal with at a certain point in time.
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Feedback, if done well, can leave people feeling motivated and positive:
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Motivation is not enough. To encourage lasting change, we need reminders, repetition, and habits.
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Some techniques to enhance motivation:
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Meditation is not about getting good at Meditation. Meditaion is getting good at LIFE.
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Most productivity or business books, podcasts, conferences or TED talks have the same solution to being more successful and happier: meditate for twenty minutes once or twice a day.
But meditation as a practice doesn't always work with where we currently are in our lives. We may be too excited and optimistic to sit still or even too young. There are also other ways to ensure we are not always in a reactionary mode.
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Talking meditation involves speaking slowly and taking time to process the other person's message.
Many people speak quickly, without thinking deeply about their responses in conversation. Making communication a more sacred act can strengthen relationships and increase intimacy.
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1️⃣ Focused attention
2️⃣ Open-monitoring
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A state of conscious awareness resulting from living in the moment is not sufficient for creativity to come about.
To be creative, you need to have, or be trained in, the ability to observe, notice, and attend to phenomena that pass your mind’s eye.
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Tibetan monks meditate for hours upon hours each week. Their devotion to their religious traditions makes them experts in the practice of meditation.
Turns out those experts have a lot to teach us about how sustained mindfulness affects the brain.
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It is more customizable than mantra meditation, using a mantra or series of words that are specific to each practitioner.
This practice is for those who like structure and are serious about maintaining a meditation practice.
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There’s no such thing as perfect meditation. Sometimes your focus will wander or you’ll forget to follow your breath. That’s OK. It’s part of the experience. What’s most important is to meditate consistently. It’s one of those things where the journey is more important than the destination.
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Meditating can change the structure and function of the brain through relaxation, which can reduce stress, anxiety, and depression. Increase focus and learning concentration. Improve memory and attention span.
Disconnects us with the world and blazes out our focus for the given task. Use OM Chanting, Reverse Number Counting and Warm Nasal Breathing for maintaining a long-lasting habit.
Key to Hear : Timings should be maintained, if delayed the sleep cycle may trip a lot. As when you reach your focused mind state shouldn't be the time you are heading to your bed.
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Meditation is mainly focused on shifting your circle of attention to:
These 2 types are the extremes on a spectrum of perception. Some of us are more attuned to our own states (like if we are aware of our heartbeats during normal activity), some are more exteroceptive, meaning we pay attention to our surroundings.
Dr. Huberman recommends practicing a type of meditation that goes against your normal mode of perception.
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Three ideas to motivate people to change their behavior with less fear-inducing message:
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Meditating in silence gives you a great amount of time to calm you down, get you relaxed and when your soul is peaceful, it finds the best solutions
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The Bayesian brain hypothesises that our mind works like an AI predictive model. We don't experience our world directly, but we perceive it. Meaning we construct it using both our senses and our prior beliefs.
If this is true then meditation can act as a way to improve our experience of ourself and of the world. By making us aware of our biases and allowing us to change how we create the world. This is the proposition of Shamil Chandaria, one of the AI pioneers, having worked at DeepMind (now part of Google).
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Meditation allows us:
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If we place the 3 types of meditation of on a 3D chart we can plot the evolution of meditator from "monkey mind" to enlightenment. Just like the Jhanas, states of deep mental concentration and absorption that are cultivated in Buddhist meditation.
In short meditation:
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